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Pharmaceutical Key Account Management Training Course

Applies key account management to pharmaceutical customers, navigating complex healthcare systems, many stakeholders and regulation to protect and grow sales.

KASM · Key Account Management & Strategic Account ManagementAll Levels#2576ClassroomEnglish , Arabic
Duration
5 Days
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Sectors:Sales, Marketing & Customer ExperienceCategories:Key Account Management & Strategic Account Management

Course Overview

This advanced practical course focuses on strategic key account management within the pharmaceutical industry, where customer relationships involve complex healthcare systems, multiple stakeholders, strict regulatory requirements, and evidence-based decision-making. It equips participants with practical approaches to manage strategic accounts, protect existing business, and identify sustainable growth opportunities. The programme examines pharmaceutical account structures, stakeholder mapping, healthcare customer needs, account intelligence, market access considerations, customer segmentation, opportunity identification, and strategic relationship development. Participants will learn how to understand the priorities of hospitals, healthcare groups, distributors, pharmacies, payers, and other relevant stakeholders while maintaining appropriate professional and compliance standards. The course also addresses account planning, formulary and access considerations, product portfolio positioning, tender environments, customer engagement, cross-functional coordination, competitive intelligence, risk management, and performance measurement. Emphasis is placed on creating customer value while operating within applicable pharmaceutical regulations, ethical standards, and organizational policies. Through practical exercises and realistic pharmaceutical account scenarios, participants will develop strategic account plans, map healthcare stakeholders, identify account opportunities and risks, strengthen customer engagement strategies, and establish measurable action plans for account growth and retention.

Learning Objectives

  • Analyse the strategic role of key account management within the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Assess pharmaceutical accounts according to strategic value, potential, access, and business importance.
  • Understand healthcare customer structures and the roles of key stakeholders.
  • Develop pharmaceutical account intelligence and stakeholder maps.
  • Identify customer needs, treatment environment considerations, and business priorities.
  • Develop account plans aligned with customer needs and organizational objectives.
  • Identify opportunities for account growth, portfolio development, and service improvement.
  • Strengthen relationships with healthcare decision-makers and institutional stakeholders.
  • Apply compliant and ethical approaches to pharmaceutical customer engagement.
  • Assess competitive, market access, tender, and account-specific risks.
  • Coordinate cross-functional resources around strategic pharmaceutical accounts.
  • Develop measurable account growth, retention, and performance plans.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for Pharmaceutical Key Account Managers, Strategic Account Managers, Hospital Account Managers, Sales Managers, Regional Sales Managers, Business Development Managers, and Commercial Managers within pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations. It is also suitable for professionals working in market access, commercial operations, medical-commercial coordination, customer engagement, institutional sales, tender management, and healthcare business development. The programme is particularly relevant to professionals managing hospitals, healthcare groups, pharmacies, distributors, government healthcare organizations, private healthcare providers, payers, and other strategically important pharmaceutical accounts.

Learning Outcomes

  • Evaluate pharmaceutical accounts based on strategic importance and growth potential.
  • Map healthcare stakeholders, decision-makers, influencers, and access pathways.
  • Build structured pharmaceutical account profiles using customer and market intelligence.
  • Identify customer priorities, unmet needs, and account-specific opportunities.
  • Develop strategic account plans for complex healthcare customers.
  • Identify portfolio expansion and account development opportunities.
  • Strengthen multi-level relationships with institutional healthcare stakeholders.
  • Apply compliant approaches to customer engagement and account management.
  • Assess competitive pressures, tender risks, access barriers, and account vulnerabilities.
  • Coordinate sales, market access, medical, marketing, and other internal resources.
  • Establish account performance indicators and opportunity tracking mechanisms.
  • Develop actionable plans for pharmaceutical account growth, retention, and long-term partnership.

Course Outline

Day 1

Pharmaceutical Key Account Management & Healthcare Account Strategy

  • Strategic account management in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Characteristics of pharmaceutical and healthcare key accounts.
  • Account segmentation and strategic prioritization.
  • Assessing account value, potential, profitability, and strategic importance.
  • Healthcare customer structures and institutional buying environments.
  • Hospitals, healthcare groups, pharmacies, distributors, payers, and government accounts.
  • Customer business priorities and healthcare system considerations.
  • Account maturity and relationship assessment.
  • Practical Application: Assess a pharmaceutical account portfolio and prioritize accounts based on strategic value, opportunity, access, and risk.
Day 2

Healthcare Stakeholder Mapping & Account Intelligence

  • Pharmaceutical account intelligence and information gathering.
  • Mapping healthcare decision-makers and influencers.
  • Clinical, commercial, procurement, financial, and administrative stakeholders.
  • Understanding stakeholder priorities and influence.
  • Relationship strength and account coverage.
  • Identifying access barriers and relationship gaps.
  • Developing multi-level stakeholder engagement strategies.
  • Executive and institutional relationship management.
  • Practical Application: Develop a comprehensive stakeholder map and engagement strategy for a complex pharmaceutical account.
Day 3

Pharmaceutical Account Planning, Market Access & Opportunity Development

  • Structure of a pharmaceutical strategic account plan.
  • Customer priorities and account objectives.
  • Portfolio positioning within strategic accounts.
  • Formulary, procurement, access, and institutional considerations.
  • Tender environments and account-specific commercial opportunities.
  • Identifying unmet customer needs and whitespace opportunities.
  • Cross-selling and portfolio development within appropriate commercial boundaries.
  • Opportunity qualification and prioritization.
  • Practical Application: Develop a pharmaceutical account plan covering customer priorities, access considerations, portfolio opportunities, stakeholders, targets, and priority actions.
Day 4

Account Growth, Competitive Intelligence & Risk Management

  • Strategic account growth and retention strategies.
  • Competitive intelligence within pharmaceutical accounts.
  • Competitor positioning and account defense.
  • Tender and procurement risks.
  • Market access challenges and account vulnerabilities.
  • Customer retention and relationship protection.
  • Ethical and compliant account engagement.
  • Cross-functional coordination with sales, medical, market access, marketing, and other teams.
  • Practical Application: Develop an account growth and risk management plan for a pharmaceutical customer facing competitive and access challenges.
Day 5

Strategic Account Execution, Performance & Partnership Development

  • Translating account plans into execution priorities.
  • Account actions, ownership, timelines, and milestones.
  • Opportunity pipeline and revenue forecasting.
  • Measuring account growth, retention, profitability, access, and relationship performance.
  • Strategic account reviews and customer business reviews.
  • Continuous account intelligence and plan adaptation.
  • Building long-term institutional partnerships.
  • Governance and continuous improvement of pharmaceutical account management.
  • Final Workshop: Develop and present a complete Pharmaceutical Strategic Account Plan covering account priorities, stakeholder strategy, customer engagement, market access considerations, portfolio opportunities, competitive risks, performance indicators, internal resources, and execution milestones.

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Lisbon · 11 – 15 Jan 2027 · Classroom

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